Nearly lxx Senegalese nationals get got been expelled from The Republic of The Gambia into Senegal’s Casamance region, BBC Afrique is reporting.
The mensurate comes alone 3 days later on a coming together held yesteryear the interior ministers of the ii states inwards the Senegalese capital, Dakar.
Senegal played a telephone substitution last inwards helping President Adama Barrow get got ability inwards January, forcing long-serving ruler Yahya Jammeh to become into exile.
The expulsions took house later on undocumented Senegalese nationals were arrested yesteryear immigration authorities during location checks inwards Banjul as well as its suburbs.
Last Wednesday, Gambian Interior Minister Mai Ahmad Fatty was inwards talks amongst his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo inwards a bid to piece of occupation out a articulation strategy to tackle cross-border crime, including drug trafficking as well as potential terror threats.
Gambia’s immigration director, Buba Sanyang, ordered the expulsions without allowing those detained to appeal, BBC Afrique is reporting.
It quotes a Gambian regime source every bit proverb that the expulsions are non a reflection of President Barrow’s immigration policy.
According to the source, no officials from the jurist as well as interior ministries were consulted over the expulsions.
Before the expulsions, relations betwixt Banjul as well as Dakar get got been cordial. President Barrow was initially sworn inwards every bit president inwards Dakar, as well as Senegal sent troops to The Republic of The Gambia to strength Mr Jammeh out of power.
Mr Barrow defeated Mr Jammeh inwards elections, ending his 22-year rule.
However, Mr Jammeh tried to cling to power, alleging that the effect was rigged.